Herodotus: Volume 2 - Herodotus and the World

Zusatztext These contributions, well selected and well introduced by the editor, represent a good guide to the complex universe of Herodotus. Informationen zum Autor Rosaria Munson is Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College where she has been teaching since 1990. Klappentext This second volume's selected essays look at the principles of Herodotus' research concerning the physical world in the light of traditional myth and the science of his times, and deal with the connections between travelling and storytelling, culture and gender, Hellenic and barbarian religions, and memory and ethnicity. Zusammenfassung This second volume's selected essays look at the principles of Herodotus' research concerning the physical world in the light of traditional myth and the science of his times, and deal with the connections between travelling and storytelling, culture and gender, Hellenic and barbarian religions, and memory and ethnicity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Rosaria V. Munson; Physis and Historie; 1 James S. Romm: The Boundaries of Earth; 2 Aldo Corcella: Herodotus and Analogy; 3 Catherine Darbo-Peschanski: Herodotus and Historia; The Homeric wanderer; 4 John Marincola: Odysseus and the Historians; Women in Herodotus; 5 Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg and Addendun by Amelie Kuhrt: Exit Atossa: Images of Women in Greek Historiography about Persia; 6 Carolyn Dewald: Women and Culture in Herodotus Histories; World religions and the divine; 7 John Gould: Herodotus and Religion; 8 Walter Burkert: Herodotus on the Names of Gods: Polytheism as a Historical Problem; Herodotus barbaroi; 9 Michele Rosellini and Suzanne Said: Women's Customs among the Savages in Herodotus; 10 Franccois Hartog: Imaginary Scythians: Space and Nomadism; 11 James Redfield: Herodotus the Tourist; 12 Ian S. Moyer: Herodotus and an Egyptian Mirage; 13 Rosaria V. Munson: Who Are Herodotus' Persians?; Us and them; 14 Rosalind Thomas: Ethnicity, Genealogy, and Hellenism in Herodotus; 15 Christopher Pelling: East is East and West is West - Or Are They? National Stereotypes in Herodotus; Bibliography of Works Cited; Acknowledgements; Index...

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• Authors: Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Rosaria Vignolo (Professor of Classics Munson
• Assisted by: Rosaria Vignolo Munson (Editor), Rosaria Vignolo (Professor of Classics Munson (Editor), Munson Rosaria Vignolo (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2013
• EAN: 9780199587582
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958758-2
• No. of pages: 482
• Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; Oxford Readings in Classical S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory